WO2009068312A3 - Fiber laser comprising a ring-shaped resonator - Google Patents

Fiber laser comprising a ring-shaped resonator Download PDF

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WO2009068312A3
WO2009068312A3 PCT/EP2008/010138 EP2008010138W WO2009068312A3 WO 2009068312 A3 WO2009068312 A3 WO 2009068312A3 EP 2008010138 W EP2008010138 W EP 2008010138W WO 2009068312 A3 WO2009068312 A3 WO 2009068312A3
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resonator
fiber laser
fiber
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laser
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Reto HÄRING
Armin Zach
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Toptica Photonics Ag
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/063—Waveguide lasers, i.e. whereby the dimensions of the waveguide are of the order of the light wavelength
    • H01S3/067—Fibre lasers
    • H01S3/06791—Fibre ring lasers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/063—Waveguide lasers, i.e. whereby the dimensions of the waveguide are of the order of the light wavelength
    • H01S3/067—Fibre lasers
    • H01S3/0675—Resonators including a grating structure, e.g. distributed Bragg reflectors [DBR] or distributed feedback [DFB] fibre lasers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
    • H01S3/11—Mode locking; Q-switching; Other giant-pulse techniques, e.g. cavity dumping
    • H01S3/1106—Mode locking
    • H01S3/1112—Passive mode locking
    • H01S3/1115—Passive mode locking using intracavity saturable absorbers
    • H01S3/1118—Semiconductor saturable absorbers, e.g. semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors [SESAMs]; Solid-state saturable absorbers, e.g. carbon nanotube [CNT] based

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  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Lasers (AREA)
  • Semiconductor Lasers (AREA)

Abstract

The invention relates to a fiber laser comprising a ring-shaped resonator (3). A first section of the resonator is formed by an optical fiber (7) while a second section of the resonator is formed by an optically pumped amplifier fiber (8). The fiber laser further comprises an injection point (4) for injecting light of a pump light source (1) into the resonator (3) as well as an extraction point (5) for extracting generated laser light from the resonator (3). The aim of the invention is to design a more developed fiber laser. Said aim is achieved by providing the resonator (3) with at least one reflective optical component (12, 51) which reflects the laser light circulating in the resonator (3).
PCT/EP2008/010138 2007-11-29 2008-11-28 Fiber laser comprising a ring-shaped resonator WO2009068312A2 (en)

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US12/734,887 US8457164B2 (en) 2007-11-29 2008-11-28 Fiber laser comprising a ring-shaped resonator
CA2717422A CA2717422C (en) 2007-11-29 2008-11-28 Fiber laser having a ring-shaped resonator

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DE102007057856.5A DE102007057856B4 (en) 2007-11-29 2007-11-29 Fiber laser with annular resonator
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US5627848A (en) * 1995-09-05 1997-05-06 Imra America, Inc. Apparatus for producing femtosecond and picosecond pulses from modelocked fiber lasers cladding pumped with broad area diode laser arrays
WO2001076025A1 (en) * 2000-04-03 2001-10-11 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Semiconductor elements for stabilizing laser output
US20020071454A1 (en) * 2000-09-22 2002-06-13 Hong Lin Actively mode-locked fiber laser with controlled chirp output
JP2005347668A (en) * 2004-06-07 2005-12-15 Sun Tec Kk Wavelength scanning type fiber laser optical source
EP1675227A1 (en) * 2004-12-08 2006-06-28 PolarOnyx , Inc. Nonlinear polarization pulse mode locked fiber laser at a wavelength of one micron
US20070153289A1 (en) * 2005-03-17 2007-07-05 Yilmaz Ismail T Coupled and non-coupled opto-electronic oscillators with enhanced performance
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